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Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010. At the close of a long day, Inspector Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani's life is his work, but as his colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life crumbling.